The Elf
Created by William Goscombe John
Date: 1911
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: single figure
Material: metal - bronze
Description: The crouching figure of a nude girl upon a fragment of architecture.
Notes: The original marble, twice the size of this bronze, is owned by Glasgow Museums.
Exhibitions and other Events
Exhibited at Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Cymru National Museum of Wales Exhibition of Works by Certain Modern Artists of Welsh Birth or Extraction, 1913
5 December 1913 - 28 February 1914
lent by Henry Webb, MP
Exhibited at Exhibition in aid of the funds of the Welsh Military Hospital, Netley, 1913
13 December 1915 - 18 December 1915
lent by Lieutenant Colonel Harry Webb, MP
Sources
Catalogue for Exhibition in aid of the funds of the Welsh Military Hospital, Netley
1915
p. 7 (40)
Citing this record
'The Elf', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=msib1_1203345134, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
